Estrangement, Nature and ‘the Flesh’

Hailwood, Simon

doi:10.1007/s10677-013-9468-6

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“…If 'nature' entwined with culture is understood essentially as the 'fleshy' 'perceptual world', and its intertwining, then our estrangement from it is a manifestation of a disconnection (Ives et al, 2018) and an 'inadequate participation' praxis within the same. This detached connection, concerns 'primordial' perceptual relations due to a domineering instrumentalizing approach towards 'nature' (Hailwood, 2014).…”

Section: Flesh and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Understanding Flesh as the original intertwining of perceiver/perceiving and perceived, sensing and being sensible, via an inter-involving reciprocity and kinship, allows a critique of alienating, unsustainable practices, based on anthropocentrism and irresponsible non-integrative orientation. Unsustainable practices can thereby be understood as being less-than-fully-adequately participating in-and lacking an openness to-engagement with a more-than-human 'fleshy' world (Hailwood, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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En-Fleshed Practicing in Organisations Flesh as Elemental Carnality and Formative Medium for Organising Sustainability Development

Keupers

2023

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Based on Merleau-Pontys’s philosophy of flesh, this paper outlines possibilities for organisational practices towards sustainability development. In order to elucidate these en-fleshed practices, the paper begins by presenting Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the body and perception as well as his ontology of ‘flesh’. In particular, flesh is interpreted as elemental ‘carnality’ and formative medium. As such, it is processed through sensual and reflexive doubling as a reversibility and chiasm of the sentient and the sensible. This understanding opens for the path to a post-dualistic, transformative approach towards processes of post-dualistic ‘wild being and ‘inter-be(com)ing’ in organisations. These concepts of Flesh are related to affect and imagination as well as organization and sustainability. The paper then offers some practical and political as well as research implications and concludes with some final perspectives on possible enfleshed inter-practices of sustainability.

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Section: Flesh and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%